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"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
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"I like home. It's warm and there are books."
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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."
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"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."
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"No guest rooms. I shake my head resolutely. "I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room."
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"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."
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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
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"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."
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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."
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"An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write."
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"I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music."
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"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
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"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
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"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
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"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
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"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
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"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
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"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
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"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
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